 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
"Liberty" is a good watchword, but it is not sufficient as an international principle. There should be liberty to do certain kinds of things, but not certain other kinds. Primarily, there should be no liberty to make aggressive war. It is obvious that this requires some supernational authority with a preponderance of armed forces and with a judicial body entrusted with the duty of pronouncing quickly whether, in a given case, aggression has taken place.
Source: Some Problems of the Post-War World, 1943． In: Free World, v.5: Mar. 1943, pp.297-301. * Repr. as 'Problems we will face' in: Treasury for the Free World, ed. by Ben Raeburn(New York, Acro, 1945), pp.31-34.
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